Chords for How to Play Handpan (Hangdrum) - Lesson 1: Striking Technique

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Hello everyone and welcome to this multi-part series about basics of how to play your handpan
Now because you're watching this chances are you've already purchased a handpan or about to receive your handpan
And I want to get a little bit of
Kind of the how-to isn't really set in stone.
It's really however you want to play it.
Whatever sounds good to you
What chances are it's gonna sound good to your audience because if you have one of these beautiful instruments
Anything you do on it is going to be amazing
But I've taught a lot of my friends how to play
over
Some recent times so I think there's a couple of things I've noticed that helps people get started
And the first thing I want to get into and it's about this video is your striking technique
So there's a couple of different ways to do this a couple of different techniques work for people
Eventually you will be able to use all ten of your fingers
But I think for the first time when you get it, you know when you're getting started
You have to identify what's the best technique for you?
What you feel most comfortable with the idea is you have to strike the tone fields in a way that you don't
mute the sound but
You let it ring out.
[Dm] So you kind of have to [G] take your finger away from it at the same time
[Dm] When I got started there were two basic techniques and primarily I use the side of the thumb technique
kind of a
[A] kind of jump [Am] off
That's one [Dm] way to do it
And you can see if that works for you
If your thumb is not that agile and you will be kind of doing [F] these it's important not to just
Kind of give it so much thrust this way, [Dm] but really kind of like you're flicking your wrist
[F]
[Am] Kind of like [G] that make sure you let that ring out nicely
[Dm] So that's one technique and you have to try this and see which of these works
Second technique that I've seen most people using is either the index finger or your middle finger
[D]
[Bb] And then the middle finger [Dm] same way
It's same idea.
You have to make sure you can pull it off
[A] Make sure you're not muting the sound and these would be I think the most most common ones
Some people find actually kind of this dabbing motion and they kind of tend to use two or three fingers
Just when they're starting out because they don't feel comfortable with one finger at a time
So it's [D] like [Dm] you can kind of make the same sound pretty [C] much.
It's if this is what works for you
You can start with this
[Am] And also it'll vary which tone fields you're hitting because when you're back here
Sometimes this kind of dabbing motion will not work so easily
You have to really, you know break your wrists in an unnatural way.
So sometimes this will be more comfortable with your thumb
[A] And then up here a lot of people find the
First and second finger technique to be a little better for [G] me.
It doesn't really matter
So I think the first thing you want to do is really experiment with these three or four techniques
See where you feel most comfortable and also around the handpan if it works for you everywhere
Then that'll be your technique
I'll be releasing a new video every weekend, hopefully
And then that gives you plenty of time to practice and see what works for you
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_ Hello everyone and welcome to this multi-part series about basics of how to play your handpan
Now because you're watching this chances are you've already purchased a handpan or about to receive your handpan
_ And I want to get a little bit of
Kind of the how-to isn't really set in stone.
It's really however you want to play it.
Whatever sounds good to you
What chances are it's gonna sound good to your audience because if you have one of these beautiful instruments
Anything you do on it is going to be amazing
_ _ _ But I've taught a lot of my friends how to play
over
Some recent times so I think there's a couple of things I've noticed that helps people get started
And the first thing I want to get into and it's about this video is your striking technique
So there's a couple of different ways to do this a couple of different techniques work for people
Eventually you will be able to use all ten of your fingers
But I think for the first time when you get it, you know when you're getting started
You have to identify what's the best technique for you?
What you feel most comfortable with the idea is you have to strike the tone fields in a way that you don't
mute the sound but
You let it ring out.
[Dm] So you kind of have to [G] take your finger away from it at the same time
[Dm] When I got started there were two basic techniques and primarily I use the side of the thumb technique _
_ kind of a
_ _ [A] _ kind of jump [Am] off
_ _ _ That's one [Dm] way to do it
And you can see if that works for you
If your thumb is not that agile and you will be kind of doing [F] these it's important not to just
Kind of give it so much thrust this way, [Dm] but really kind of like you're flicking your wrist
[F] _
_ _ [Am] _ Kind of like [G] that make sure you let that ring out nicely
[Dm] So that's one technique and you have to try this and see which of these works
Second technique that I've seen most people using is either the index finger or your middle finger
[D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] And then the middle finger [Dm] same way
_ It's same idea.
You have to make sure you can pull it off
[A] Make sure you're not muting the sound _ and these would be I think the most most common ones
Some people find actually kind of this dabbing motion and they kind of tend to use two or three fingers
Just when they're starting out because they don't feel comfortable with one finger at a time
So it's [D] like [Dm] you can kind of make the same sound pretty [C] much.
It's if this is what works for you
You can start with this
[Am] _ And also it'll vary which tone fields you're hitting because when you're back here
_ Sometimes this kind of dabbing motion will not work so easily
You have to really, you know break your wrists in an unnatural way.
So sometimes this will be more comfortable with your thumb
_ [A] And then up here a lot of people find the
First and second finger technique to be a little better for [G] me.
It doesn't really matter
_ So I think the first thing you want to do is really experiment with these three or four techniques
See where you feel most comfortable and also around the handpan if it works for you everywhere
Then that'll be your technique _
I'll be releasing a new video every weekend, hopefully
And then that gives you plenty of time to practice and see what works for you
[F] _ _ _